Croxby

The Caistor Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

Ian S. has a photograph of the Churchyard at Croxby on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2011.

• The parish was in the Caistor sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
   
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
   
• The church was originally erected in 1140.
   
• The church seats 80.
   
• The Church is a Grade II* structure with Engish Heritage.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2005.
   
• Here is a photo of the church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1812. Earler registers were lost to fire.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Westwold Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• Kelly's 1913 Directory of Lincolnshire places the parish in the East Walshcroft rural deanery.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

• The parish was in the Caistor sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
   
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.

Croxby is a small village and a parish in the north of Lincolnshire, about 5 miles east of Caistor and 10 miles south-west from Grimsby. Thorganby parish is to the south-east and Cuxwold parish to the north. The parish only covers about 1,650 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• The village does not appear on most motoring maps. It is too small.
   
• Check our resources on the transport page for bus services.
   
• See our touring page for area resources.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Croxby to another place.

Croxby deserted medieval village (DMV) lies to the north-east from the church, with Croxby Hall at the bottom, and along the sides of, a narrow stream running through a chalk valley.

• John Donald COATES, a farmer, was the resident in Croxby Hall in 1912.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF191983 (Lat/Lon: 53.467562, -0.207796), Croxby which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• This place was an ancient parish in county Lincoln and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the south division of the ancient Walshcroft Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• Kelly's 1913 Directory of Lincolnshire places the parish, perhaps erroneously, in the East Lindsey division of the county.
   
• In April, 1936, this Civil Parish was abolished and all the land amalgamated into Thoresway Civil Parish.
   
• Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard at the Caistor petty session hearings every fourth Wednesday of the month.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.
   

At the time of the Domesday survey Croxby had a population of 36.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	57
1831	73
1841	106
1871	140
1881	127
1891	115
1911	119

• The children of this parish attended school in Thorganby parish.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.